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Re: Get .config from installed kernel?



Kendall Shaw wrote:

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>
>Hi,
>
>I have kernel 2.2.16 installed which I never compiled from source, and I 
>want to add a kernel module to support my sound card. Is there a way for me 
>to generate the .config that matches my installed kernel so that I can 
>easily recompile the kernel as it is, but with support for my sound card? 
>Or, with the 2.2.16 source, is there an easy way for me to simply compile 
>the sound card support as modules and install them? Or rather, what is the 
>quickest route to adding support for my sound card?

copy your current config file (it's config-linuxversion in /boot) to
.config in your linux source directory. That is, that file would
appear if you used make-kpkg.


Paolo Falcone

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